Most people will have seen the plethora of adverts around telling you how easy it is to turn your unwanted mobile phone into cash. There are around 90 million phones sitting unused in Britain alone, worth a staggering £450 million.
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Silverlight shows up on Symbian handsets
Symbian phones might be getting hammered in the press a little bit at the moment, but that hasn't stopped companies developing for it, with Microsoft's Silverlight the next in line. The new Silverlight 'experience' will be available for Symbian S60 5th edition handsets, although no word on whether this includes non-Nokia phones. Now added to the Ovi Store, handsets like the Nokia X6 and 5800 XpressMusic are taking advantage of the next-gen tech, which will allow users to browse richer content on the web
New service: Find out how much your old mobile is worth with TechRadar
TechRadar is launching new features that will help its users sell their old mobile phone for the best possible price. Its tie-up, with phone recycling comparison site, SellMyMobile.com , enables readers to compare the various prices offered for their old mobile from a variety of phone recyclers, then sell their phones for the best price. Prices are sourced from all the major phone recycling sites, and are constantly updated so readers can maximise the value of their old phone.
Mystery Nokia slider shows off proto-Symbian^3 one last time, commits cellular suicide (video)
We never did quite get the name of Nokia's prototype slider -- it certainly isn't the C7 , and it's apparently not the N9 -- but regardless of what you call our dearly departed, its journey is over . In what will no doubt be a fairly familiar tale to readers everywhere, TechnoBuffalo saw the phone remotely wiped right before their eyes, and Negri Electronics ( our original source ) says they've got private investigators breathing down their necks for the device
Nokia planning to drop Symbian for top end phones
Nokia has stated that it is dropping Symbian for all its high end N-series phones, replacing it with the new MeeGo OS. This means that the much-vaunted Symbian^4 will only be used on the mid range handsets it's seeking to push into the hands of consumers to help maintain its share of the smartphone market
Hacked N900 blazes through Froyo
While the various and sundry Android manufacturers are all scrambling (or casually strolling) toward official Android 2.2 updates for their manifold handsets, someone managed to get Google's Froyo running on the Nokia N900 . Turns out, the two are a pretty great pair, with some super speedy browsing (like, really fast) and decent hardware support outside of an unfortunate lack of memory card support
Updated: 20 best mobile phones in the world today
Our verdict on the best mobile phones, and best mobile phone deals, on the planet - constantly updated We've all got at least one mobile phone each, right? The trouble is, how do you decide which is the best mobile phone for you? Hopefully, TechRadar's extensive mobile phone reviews can help you with that.
Samsung plans to double its smartphone share by end of year, jump ahead of HTC and Motorola
More than 10% of worldwide smartphone market share : that's where Samsung plans to be, on triple its current handset volume, by the end of 2010 according to Lee Donjoo, senior VP of the company's Mobile Communications division.
NNSFW: A Column Written In Five Minutes About Stuff That Mattered Years Ago
“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren’t necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Slaughterhouse Five In Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s most famous book, Billy Pilgrim is a former soldier who finds himself lost in time: forced to live and relive the periods of his life in random order.
Orange trials HD Voice before late Summer rollout
Orange has announced it is to introduce HD voice on its 3G network later this summer. The company is currently trialling the service in Bristol, Reading and Southampton. The service will be free to Orange customers with compatible handsets.
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